INDEX 



Illustrations — contd. 



Fayum Desert, remains of 



silicified trees, 124 

 Flint implements, 86 

 Footprints of animals in 



ancient rocks, 54, 55 

 Ganoid fish fossil, 250 



Hard bony scales of, 247 

 Giraffe, 21 



Five-horned giraffe, 156, 



157 

 Teeth of lower jaw and 

 allied animals, 159 

 Glyplodon — skeleton, 170 

 Great auk and egg, 23, 



25 

 Horse : 



Hyracotherium, Eocene 



ancestor, 139, 140 

 Model of thoroughbred 



English horse, 133 

 Phenacodus, skeleton of, 



141 

 Toes and foot of modern 

 horse and of four-toed 

 and three-toed ances- 

 tors, 135, 137, 138 

 Horse and man, skeletons 



compared, 70-72 

 Human teeth, 80 

 Ichthyornis — toothed bird, 



237 

 Ichthyosaurus, 6, 225, 226, 



228, 229 

 Iguanodon, 197, 198, 199, 



200, 202 

 Inostransevia, skeleton and 



skull, 220, 221, 222 

 Jaw of mammal from 



Stonesfield slate, 84 

 Jelly fish preserved in litho- 

 graphic limestone, 48 



Illustrations — contd. 

 King-crab, 281-286 

 Lasanius — Silurian fish, 262 

 Lingula, shell of, 272, 273 

 Lizard : 



Mexican horned lizard, 



194 

 New Zealand lizard, Tua- 

 tara, 193 

 Loligo media — cuttle-fish 

 living in British seas, 

 272 

 Lyme Regis, strata of cliff 



at, 49, 51 

 Mammoth : 



Imaginary picture of, 96 

 Skeleton found frozen in 

 Siberia, 93 

 Mastodons : 



Meritherium, 129, 130 



Tetrdbelodon angustidens, 



long- jawed Miocene 



mastodon, 116, 117, 



119, 121 



Megalosaurus — skeleton, 



203 

 Megatherium — skeleton, 7 

 Moa — ^New Zealand moa, 



68,69 

 Mylodon : 



Remains of, discovered 

 in cave. 

 Piece of skin of the 

 mylodon, etc., 175, 176 

 Various specimens found 

 with the remains of 

 the mylodon, 177-182 

 View from the mouth of 

 the cave on the fiord of 

 the Ultima Speranza 

 in Southern Patagonia, 

 174 



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